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Jan van Eden

bio - biography

Stories of our life in the foreign

1977-1980 Brasil

1977

From the first of January I started with Mineraçao Sao Jose in Brasil. Spent the first few months working from Rio de Janeiro, then moved to Curitiba.

 

1977 Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana

 

 

 

 

 

 

At home in Curitiba  [77 Curitiba house 5]

 

 

 

77 Rescue operation after a spontaneous fire while driving in our Rural.
My father joined me on this fieldtrip.

 

 

 

MSJ fieldoffice at Iporanga in Parana

 

 

 

1978

Rio de Janeiro, where we lived below the Pão de Açúcar in Urca. Working throughout Brasil, mainly in the Northeast up into Ceara, where we had a base in Camocim.

 

 

Departing from the apartment in Urca

 

 

 

The beach at Pao de Azucar around the corner from where we live

 

 

 

78 Pepa with Giovanna Maraschin sitting in our hammock at the hotel Camocim in Ceara

 

 

1979

Started working for Billiton (then a subsidiary of Shell Petroleum company of the Netherlands) and based in Salvador, Bahia. The project I worked on was close to the Boquira lead (PbO) mine and we lived in the village of Oliveiros dos Brejinhos.

 

Pepa at the back of our house in Oliveiros dos Bejinhos.
Start of the rainy season

 

 

 

Fieldoffice at Oliveiros dos Bejinhos

 

 

 

Market in front of our house, Oliveiros dos Bejinhos.

 

 

 

Oliveiros dos Bejinhos

 

 

 

Carnaval 1979 Salvador (Bahia)

 

 

 

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